Charles Darwin sized up the manakin in The Descent of Man. In his 1871 account of the bird, he wrote: “The diversity of the sounds … and the diversity of the means for producing such ...

Above a trickling stream, a blue-backed manakin bird, one of the 260 or so species found on Tobago, contrasted with the greenery. The route, lined with waterfalls, ended at the picturesque Bloody ...